SFF Optiplec are great. I went with a decently spec’d Intel NUC running Proxmox that handles all my home services nicely without using too much power.

Fully custom? Sick! Where do I get one? 😅

Rsync or SCP?

That would be my exit sign

Reminds me of project Silica. Media historically was more durable (stone/ ink and cloth paper, etc) but had a low data density. As density increased, so did fragility

So sad, I remember seeing his YT vid announcing his health updates and mentioning he was getting things in order to make his network more manageable for his family :(

He seemed like a great dude.

Is keeping everything inside of a local “walled garden”, then exposing the minimum amount of services needed to a WireGuard VPN not sufficient?

There would be be no attack surface from WAN other than the port opened to WireGuard